Posting House

POSTING HOUSE, HALL STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1033678
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
Statutory Address:
POSTING HOUSE, HALL STREET
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Date:
1999-09-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1033678
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Feb-1978
Statutory Address 1:
POSTING HOUSE, HALL STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
POSTING HOUSE, HALL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Long Melford
National Grid Reference:
TL 86296 45526

Details

HALL STREET 1. 5377 (East Side) Long Melford Posting House (formerly listed as Purdy's Tea Rooms) TL 8645 21/458 10.1.53. II GV

2. Originally a C15-C16 timber-framed and plastered hall house with cross wings on the north and south ends. Altered in the C17 and C18 and restored in the C20. 2 storeys. The windows are mainly double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The centre block and north cross wing have C20 shop windows, and at the north end there is an addition with a carriageway. The south cross wing has C19 ornamental bargeboards and a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a cornice hood on brackets. Roof tiled, with a modillion eaves cornice to the centre block. The interior has exposed timber-framing and on the 1st storey a cambered tie beam with crown post.

Listing NGR: TL8629645526

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278209
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